Description: CONTENTS Foreword Jameson Fredric Introduction Kang Liu Tang Xiaobing PART ONE Problematics of Subjectivity and Modernity Subjectivity, Marxism, and Cultural Theory in China Kang Liu The Subjectivity of Literature Revisited Zaifu Liu Split China, or, The Historical/Imaginary: Toward a Theory of the Displacement of Subjectivity at the Margins of Modernity Chan Ching-kiu Stephen Narratives of Modern Selfhood: First-Person Fiction in May Fourth Literature Liu Lydia H. Female Subjectivity and Gender Relations: The Early Stories of Lu Yin and Bing Xin Larson Wendy PART TWO Representation, Realism, and the Question of History Ideologies of Realism in Modern China: The Hard Imperatives of Imported Theory Huters Theodore Lu Xun, Shen Congwen, and Decapitation Wang David D. W. Red Sorghum: Limits of Transgression Lu Tonglin PART THREE Cultural Critique and Ideology Narrative, Ideology, Subjectivity: Defining a Subversive Discourse in Chinese Reportage Zhang Yingjin Anxiety of Portraiture: Quest for/Questioning Ancestral Icons in Post-Mao China Wang Yuejin Resisting Writing Tuo Li The Function of New Theory: What Does It Mean to Talk about Postmodernism in China? Tang Xiaobing Postscript Lee Leo Ou-fan Index Contributors

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